Thought for the month: "The arc of history is longer than human vision. It bends. We abolished slavery, we granted universal suffrage. We have done hard things before. And every time it took a terrible fight between people who could not imagine changing the rules, and those who said, "We already did. We have made the world new." Barbara Kingsolver

'Tis the season to focus on giving, and so Transition Fidalgo's gift to you is to begin this newsletter with a sampling of the many good things that are happening in the climate and energy arenas..